1496. The uncomfortable Palpatine
"Your Majesty, Speaker, this is the preliminary intention survey of the members of the Parliament that you want." Mas Ameda, the deputy speaker of the Galactic Republic, curled up his burly body and respectfully submitted a document to Sheev Palpatine.
His attitude now is completely different from that of Palpatine when he first took office.
Once upon a time, Mas-Ameda was also a very strong politician. He served as deputy speaker for about 2 years longer than Palpatine became speaker.
After two years of operation, when Palpatine ascended to the throne of Speaker after the Battle of Naboo, Mas-Ameda once hoped to rely on his older qualifications to exert influence on Palpatine, and even Become a puppet.
But Sheev Palpatine used very sophisticated political skills and excellent political wisdom to easily defeat him and seize his handle. Mas Ameda has since become Palpatine's second subordinate. A loyal dog.
He has always been afraid of Palpatine, and he is one of the few people who knows Palpatine's other true face. After witnessing the terrifying power that Palpatine revealed inadvertently, or perhaps deliberately, Mas-Ameda was unable to resist at all. ???
Because of this, he also had a prosperous official career under Palpatine. Although his position is still deputy speaker, in fact, the power and resources he holds are no longer the same as before.
Palpatine has always been very generous to his loyal dogs, and he never begrudges rewards.
Therefore, from such a high position, Mas-Ameda really watched step by step how Palpatine turned the Galactic Republic into his own private property, and then forced the Jedi Order into isolation. Such terrifying political tactics made Mas-Ameda, who is also a politician, even more frightened.
After Palpatine directly admitted his identity as the Sith Lord, Mas Ameda did not even have the courage to look at Palpatine.
At this moment, he kept his bent posture and did not dare to straighten up. He only dared to take a sneak peek. From his current angle, he could only see Palpatine's mouth, and he no longer dared to raise his eyes any further, because if he looked further up, he would see those eyes that he did not dare to face!
But at this moment, Palpatine was looking at the investigation report with a relaxed and warm smile, but he had no intention of letting Mas Ameda get up.
This survey report details the political leanings of at least half of the members of the Galactic Parliament, as well as their views on recent events.
Palpatine read at an extremely fast speed, but it did not affect his careful inspection and understanding of every piece of information. However, the content shown in this intelligence is not so optimistic.
That's right, he didn't take control of the Jedi Order as easily as it seemed. On the contrary, he was now suffering huge backlash from his actions against the Jedi Order.
Among the Galactic Council, more than 70% of the people opposed this matter! For the parliamentary structure of a political power, this is already an extremely fatal number!
Fortunately, many of these people are still intimidated by Palpatine's current power and dare not take any substantive action. But some of them have already started their own actions.
For example, the group of congressmen led by Padmé Amidala and Bail Organa, according to the newspaper, are brewing a political turmoil as a way to fight back.
In fact, this is exactly what Palpatine is worried about.
His political foundation is still too shallow. Compared with those wealthy families who have been operating in the inner and core circles for tens of thousands of years, he still lacks the foundation and accumulation.
In the original plan, if his master Darth Plagueis was still there, and with Plagueis' accumulated reputation in the Interstellar Banking Association, the two would cooperate internally and externally, and the accumulation of political capital would be faster and better.
But the problem is that Palpatine himself had an arrow on the string and had to fire it at that time. Because if Darth Plagueis is not killed, he will ask himself to nominate him as co-speaker. This condition is absolutely unacceptable...
This is the shortcoming of the relationship between two people who use each other. The result of mutual use is that once their interests conflict, it will turn into stabbing each other.
Because of this, even if he knew that people like Bail Organa and Padmé Amidala were plotting against him behind his back, he would never dare to attack them directly. In the original plot, he became the Emperor of the Galactic Empire for 20 years, and after completing the construction of the Death Star, he dared to blow up the entire planet of Alderaan and kill Bail Organa, whom he had always regarded as a thorn in his side.
From this point of view, we can understand how profound the powerful planets in the core circle and inner ring of this galaxy are. This foundation is not necessarily how many fleets or tanks they have, but the resources and connections they have.
Maybe you ignored the rules of the game today and directly killed one of them, and the backlash you received might be that dozens or hundreds of planets would jump up and fall out with you. Even if they don't directly set off an anti-flag rebellion, they would just do something about the tax issue. The hands and feet are enough for Palpatine to drink a pot.
And don't forget, even Palpatine himself was able to ascend to the position of Speaker with the support of the elders in the inner circle.
Looking at the contents of the document given to him by Mas Ameda, Palpatine was already filled with rage!
It's too early!
That's right! too early!
Now is not the time at all!
His control over Parliament is not yet complete! In the current parliament, there are still several disobedient factions that have not been dealt with, but he has to forcibly eliminate the Jedi Order.
And to achieve this goal, he even sent 100,000 troops to the Jedi Temple!
Regardless of how majestic and powerful the 100,000-strong army is, you must know that this is Coruscant! And the place where the Jedi Temple is located is the core of Coruscant!
If you directly mobilize troops in such a place, the nobles and wealthy families of the Galaxy Republic will watch! This is equivalent to shitting on their faces!
When a family controls wealth measured in galaxies, what do they care about most? One is safety, the other is eternal life! How would these nobles view themselves as the Chancellor if they directly used force at the core of Coruscant?
But the thing is, he has to be too. Because the Jedi Order already has very crucial evidence, and they must not be allowed to continue investigating along this evidence! Because if you follow this evidence and investigate further, his collusion with Count Dooku to trigger a galactic civil war will be made public!
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